Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14

the confessor: "Hold your tongue,
of conceit of heaven.n Lord Ches-
terfeld, when he ought to have been
praying for his SOUL bothered himself about
the proprieties of the sick room, saying:
"Give Dayroles a chairn Godfrey Knelter
died while making a diagram for his own
monument. Oh, compare such silly and
horrible getting out of life with the departure
OF Edward Payson, who said: THE breezes
of heaven fan me. / float in a sea of
gloryW Or, with Paul, as he said: "l
and now ready to be offered and the time of
my departure is at hand" He was looking
up then through the aperture of his dungeon
and the officers Of the law were standing
the e looking down in the dungeon, and Paul
said, when they asked him. care you ready;
are you ready to go out on the road to Ostea
and be beheaded; are you ready nowr And
the old missionary, 6ecrepit with exposure
and hard work for God, looked up and said:
81 am now ready | am now ready to b6
offered, and the time of my departure is at
hand; | have fought the good fight, have
finished my course, 1 have kept the faith;
heneeforth there is laid UP for me a crown
of righteousness and not only for me, but
for all those that love His appearing" Per-
haps just as grand deathbed in your own
home. Oh, the measurement Of this life
by the worldly standard and the
measurement Of this life by the Christian
standard. 1t seems to me to-day is the time
for me to begin to do better, and it is time
for you, my brother, my sister, to begin to
do better. The swift years have flown.
The old year has gone, the new year has
come, and for what purpose you and
I have been launched on this other
year God only knows And I would
like to ask you in this crisis of time, what
is your preparation for eternity. You are
not surprised at the man on the North River
steamboat who, when Christian man gave
him tract, was very indignant and tore it
up and threw it into the river; but one
word Of that tract fell upon bis coat
sleeve and he looked at it after the rest
of the tract had flown, and it was that
one word, that broad word, that high
word, that deep word, that long word, setter
nity" Call it barkT' said q dying woman,
you want to come back" ooh" she said,
''ORll it back-time time call it back!n We
may lose our fortunes and may gain them
again. We may lose our health aud
have it restored again. We may lose
our good name and by life of virtue
subsequently may restore our good name;
but time gone is gone forever Now. somej
people say they would like to go back again
to boyhood and live their life over again
they would do so much better next time. l
would not dare to go back to boyhood as |
am afraid | would do worse than I have
done. You, my brother could not afford to go
back to boyhood; you might do worse thanl
you have done. But we cannot go back The
future is before u.s. AID | congratulate you,i
'h, people of God, congratulate you that
another year has gone. What does it mean,
1t means nearer home; it means nearer our
Fathers house, it means that you are nearerl
the compauionship of loved ones who have
gone before Why should you be sad
about that2 When 1 tell you that your.
face ought to be illumined with a great
joy. Why how strange it is, this fact that
we hang on to this world with so much avid
ity when there is a much brighter world
ahead, and we ought to be glad that we have
got nearer it, Why not go to the centre f?
Why stay clear out here on the rim of the
universe} Why not glad we are going nearer
to the centre? We study God here only
by Bible photograph. But you know that
in five minutes of interview you get better
acquainted with friend than you could by
| fifty years of looking at photographs; and
the little babe that die dlast night, six months
! old, this moment knows more of God than
all Andover, all Princeton, all Rochester,
all Middletown aud all Edinqurgh,
all the theological institutions of
earth. But here we want to stay on
the outside, on the rim of this great uni
verse, and when we get a little sick we are
| frightened and we are alarmed about this
| accident and that accident, lest suddenly we
be hurled into light and glory unutterable;
and we 60 around asking what is good for
rheumatism, and what is good for a bad
| cough, and What is good for this and that,
and are fearfully alarmed, and when
we get sick we call in the doctor
| in wild haste, lest we be rushed into q
! land where they are never sick, but have i'm
mortal health. And here we hold on to the
! circumference, afraid to 60 to the centre,
while we look through the cracks and the
Of Off tba of ho
mansion will be swung wide open and we
will stand in the glory the infinite Hang
| ing on to the pauperism of sin and
| sorrow of this world and afraid that some
time suddenly we will have presented to us
an Emperor's palace surrounded by parks
and beautiful paths on which the angels of
God walk two and two. Would it not be
awful if we were suddenly to get a crown, a
| throne and triumph? Sorry another year
has gone? Glad of it. Nearer the glory that
God has provided for His people. We are like a
group of people standing on the cold steps of
the National Picture Gallery, London, under
umbrellas in the rain and you come along
and say: "Why don't you go into the pic
ture gallerY2' They say. I'VE don't know
whether we can get in" You say: "TEe
door is open.n YES" they say, sit is open,
but we have been staying here while and
we have got so attached to these cold steps
we propose to stay here" You say:
- Ou pugnG TO 20 III, III is 50 SIduu duu W Iu-
tiful inside.n They say; mo, we know just
| how it is out here, and we don't know how
| it is in there" That is you and that is me.
| Clinging on to this life as though it were all;
| forgetful Of the fact that the great picture
| gallery, the great throne room, the
| great grandeur and glory are ell ahead
| In the year 1895, the French thought in
Ghent they would have musical demonstra-
tion such as the world had never seen, and
it was made up of the chime of bells and dis
| charge of cannon 1t was grand and glori'
Gus success nothing ever, perhaps, ike IL
| heard ON earth 1t was a triumphal march
| that has become matter of history.
| When the cannon were fired and when the
| bells of all the churches and all the towers
| rang the effect was overwhelming. buV
! grander will be the accompar iement OF Gous
! children when they go out OF this world at
the blast of the Judgment trumpet, ana When
| God shall call them home the bells OF the
churches and all the towers and all the
| light houses will chime, and the sound VIII De
| Joined by the booming of bursting magazine
| and fortress and augmented by all the cathe-
| dral towers Of Heaven. The harmonious celes-
| tial and the harmonious terrestrial united IN
one great march fit to celebrate the ascent OF
a soul to where it shall shine as the stars tor-
ever and forever. With such considerations
we may look back upon the flying years WITH
| out single regret, and with exuitatlon lot
ward to the time when the archangel, WIN
one foot on the sea and the other on the land
shall swear by Him that liveth forever and
ever that time shall be no longer.
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